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A trope, even.

[-] [email protected] 47 points 2 days ago

Not a website, but a facebook group I'm in specifically has a rule against "going live" from the bathroom.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago

She's apparently making a small fortune selling merch.

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Originally tin cans were large things meant for military campaigns, so they used a chisel or similar large stabby thing.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

Electricity is the flow of electrons, who move from negative to positive, the opposite of what you would normally expect.

[-] [email protected] 28 points 5 days ago

The US newspaper billionaire William Randolph Hearst owned enough of congress that he started a war with Spain.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

The reprap basically started the entire home 3d printer thing.

[-] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago

Frankly, I doubt he said anything worth listening to.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Yes, or perhaps less literally "bee hunter", it was used as euphemism for a bear. There's some theories that saying the actual word for bear was taboo (some theories say that people believed saying it's name could attract one), so they used euphemisms like that, or "the brown one", bero, which is where the English word "bear" comes from.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Not really "modern day" snake oil when it was invented in the 1700's lol.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Can we train a local AI model to recognise ads?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Same reason you need an email server, not everyone is online at the same time.

Closest I've seen to something truly serverless is plebbit, which is a Reddit/4chan clone using ipfs.

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